Senior coroner for South Manchester Alison Mutch read sentencing remarks which said the captain accelerated through the waves, sailing too close to the shore and the boat did not have the right amount of life jackets for the passengers on board.

'Something wasn't right'

Mr Parnell, from Sileby in Leicestershire, was celebrating his first wedding anniversary with wife Puja who told the court she knew "something wasn't right" when the boat got stuck at the start of the trip.